Soft hackles have been catching fish since the invention of fly fishing. Here's how to fish a soft hackle fly, plus 6 killer patterns.

Emerger flies with an indication of the shuck trailing behind are key to triggering a bite. The X-caddis is the perfect example of an emerger with a half wing and trailing shuck.

Caddis emergers (pupa) fished on the swing under a dry fly are deadly around here. Caddis mate in swarms, and females oviposit in the evenings. The more we get out there and fish, the more we begin to ...

The Arkansas River caddis hatch tends to serve as the de facto kickoff of fly-fishing season for many anglers, giving them the chance to tie on a dry fly and set the hook on a surface strike for ...

The X-caddis is an active emerger fly that imitates a trailing shuck, upright wings and defined body. It is a perfect trailing fly for fishing dry dropper, only the dropper is close to the surface or ...

Check any fly fisherman’s fly box and it’s likely you will find a bit of Troth’s legacy. In 1957, Troth designed one of the most definitive dry-fly patterns of all time – the elk hair caddis.

Dave Whitlock holds a 15-inch brown trout caught on a caddis emerger wet fly.

The trout fishing on the Bighorn River has been exceptional for the last two to three weeks and it is largely attributable to caddis fly hatches and egg laying by ...

Students will learn to tie flies like the mayfly nymph, 3-loop pink lady, Yellow Breeches II and Holy Grail caddis.

Caddis emergers (pupa) fished on the swing under a dry fly are deadly around here. Caddis mate in swarms, and females oviposit in the evenings. The more we get out there and fish, the more we begin to ...

In the 1950s, Al Troth designed the elk hair caddis, which continues today as a must-have in every fly fisherman’s fly box. Troth died Aug. 3, but his legacy lives on.